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Our 2025 Favorite Book Survey Winners Are…

March 23, 2026 Annual Favorite Books, Bookmark, Spotlight Book Groups

Thank you to all of the great readers who filled out our 2025 Favorite Books survey!

Every year, Reading Group Choices surveys book groups and readers to compile our annual list of Favorite Books. And every year we randomly choose winners who receive a gift certificate to their local independent bookstore, copies of our 2026 annual guide, and a literary tote!

Meet our 2025 favorite books survey winners below (and sign up for our newsletter so you don’t miss the chance to take our next survey!).

Alisha of Reading Between the Wines
Jacksonville,

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Most Read Books from RGC 2024-2025

March 20, 2026 Annual Favorite Books, Bookmark, Themed Book Lists

Our 2025 survey results are in! And along with our readers’ favorite books of the year, we have a list of the most-read titles specifically from Reading Group Choices 2024-2025.

Has your group read all of these terrific books yet?

Most-Read of 2024-2025

1. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

One of our recommended books is The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

 

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize Winner
Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine,

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Reese’s Book Club Picks 2026

February 11, 2026 Annual Favorite Books, Bookmark, Reese's Book Club Picks

RGC is excited to partner with and share Reese’s Book Club monthly book club picks!

Every month, Reading Group Choices crafts exclusive discussion questions for Reese’s Book Club picks designed to ignite fresh ideas and lively conversation at your next gathering! Here are the titles selected in 2026. How many do you recognize? How many did your book club choose?

January
The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave

One of our recommended books is The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave

 

 

 

 

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2025 Most-Viewed Books on RGC Website

February 05, 2026 Annual Favorite Books, Bookmark, Themed Book Lists

With another year of reading behind us and 2026 officially underway, we’re rounding up the 20 books that readers couldn’t stop clicking on across the RGC website in 2025. These aren’t all brand-new releases, but each title made a strong impression and earned its place among the year’s most popular picks.

Which of these books did you already love, and which are calling your name now? Our 2025 RGC reading recap showcases an eclectic range of stories and subjects, from fiction and nonfiction to young adult favorites, across multiple formats – proof that great reads come in many forms!

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Best of the Best Books 2025

January 09, 2026 Bookmark, Themed Book Lists

Our “best of the best” returns for 2025! We’ve reviewed the end-of-year best book lists and narrowed them down into one reference guide.

Overwhelmed by what to read from the past year? We’ve gathered the fiction, nonfiction, and young adult titles we recommended in 2025 that also appear on at least one of the favorite lists from:

Book Riot, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Bookpage, New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Washington Post, Silent Book Club,

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Most Popular Books 2025

January 05, 2026 Bookmark, Themed Book Lists

We’ve gathered the most popular books in 2025 for a look back at the year! In each of our monthly newsletters, we share the top two most-viewed titles on the Reading Group Choices site for that month.

Here are the titles — a mix of fiction and nonfiction — that caught our readers’ attention from January to December: the most popular books in 2025. Do you remember these great reads? See if they match your own group’s most popular books…

January

1. Grace of the Empire State
by Gemma Tizzard

2.

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